2 Cantatas and 6 Songs (Gunn, Barnabas)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	8 pieces Cantata I: Grant me, gentle love, said I Cantata II: A swain, whose am'rous fickle mind Fair Melanias so compleat False tho' she be to me and love When Chloe was by Damon seen The first Stanza of Sappho's Hymn to Venus - O Venus, beauty of the skies If wine and musick have the pow'r Whilst I am scorch'd with hot desire
First Publication	1736
Genre Categories	Secular cantatas; Cantatas; Songs; For voice, violin, continuo; For voices with solo instruments; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the violin; Scores with basso continuo; For voice, flute, continuo; Scores featuring the flute; For voice, continuo; For voices with continuo; English language

Sheet Music

Complete Score
*#69870 - 0.85MB, 26 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 532×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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1. Grant Me Gentle Love
*#51847 - 1.82MB, 4 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 191×⇩ - Grantco

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Publisher. Info.	Gloucester: R. Raikes, 1736
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
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Work Title	2 Cantatas and 6 Songs
Alternative. Title
Composer	Gunn, Barnabas
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IBG 2
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	8 pieces Cantata I: Grant me, gentle love, said I Cantata II: A swain, whose am'rous fickle mind Fair Melanias so compleat False tho' she be to me and love When Chloe was by Damon seen The first Stanza of Sappho's Hymn to Venus - O Venus, beauty of the skies If wine and musick have the pow'r Whilst I am scorch'd with hot desire
First Publication.	1736
Librettist	William Congreve "a gentleman" Sappho (translated) Matthew Prior
Language	English
Dedication	all lovers of musick
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Baroque
Piece Style	Baroque
Instrumentation	voice, flute/violin, continuo; voice, continuo